Walk through any Indonesian pasar (market), and you will find the most fierce negotiators are Janda . In the Pekerja Migran Indonesia (Indonesian migrant worker) phenomenon, thousands of women who divorced or were widowed leave for Malaysia, Hong Kong, or Taiwan. They become the economic backbone of their villages, sending remittances to build schools and mosques—yet when they return home, they are still whispered about as Janda kering (dry, undesirable widows).